NSK receives valuable donation of books on India
On 26 March 2026, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Republic of India to the Republic of Croatia His Excellency Arun Goel visited the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK), on which occasion he donated to NSK valuable titles on his homeland.
His Excellency Mr Goel met with the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević, NSK Library Adviser for International Cooperation Jagoda Ille and NSK Senior Public Relations Adviser Ivana Mirošević. The donation, consisting of more than twenty books, has been included in The World in Books, NSK’s permanent exhibition featuring titles informing its users of various countries from different perspectives and providing an overview of the Library’s international cooperation-focused ties.
Valuable titles on India for NSK’s users
The exhibition, put on on the Library’s Ground Floor, as the Library’s most frequented area, showcases titles standing as a record of the Library’s contribution to cultural cooperation and academic partnership between Croatia and many countries in Europe and the rest of the world.
In addition to titles on India displayed as part of the exhibition, the Library’s users may also access 254 items in Hindi, India’s most widespread official language, included in the NSK collections.
NSK part of strengthening Croatian-Indian cultural ties
The meeting participants discussed the cultural exchange agreement signed by the Croatian and Indian governments in June 2025 as part of whose implementation the two countries shall exchange varied published material of mutual interest.
Initiating the exchange, at the agreement’s signing Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković presented Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the reprint of the first published Sanskrit grammar (Sidharubam seu grammatica samscrdamica), which in 1790 was written in Latin by a Croatian scholar and missionary Filip Vesdin (1748-1806) and whose original copy is preserved as part of the NSK Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection.
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